Pharma & Drugs
What is one of several GLP-1 drugs?
What are [ozempic], [mounjaro], [zepbound], [wegovy]
The continent with the lowest precipitation
What is Antarctica?
The second-most popular sport after association football
What is cricket?
What is the 101
What program was launched in 2010 that unified payments for all 20+ transit agencies in the Bay Area?
What is the Clipper card
In recent years, Denmark had to make versions of its GDP projections with and without this company, due to its dominant impact on the Danish GDP
What is Novo Nordisk?
A group of pioneers traveling to California in 1846 who got trapped in Sierra Nevada winter storms and resorted to cannibalism
What is the Donner Party?
The only country in Southeast Asia that has never been colonized
The new (current) mayor, Daniel Lurie, is heir to which major clothing brand that started in SF?
What is Levi Strauss?
The newest subway station in NYC that opened in 2017
What are 72/86/96 st on the Q in Upper East Side
The best-selling prescription drug of all time by cumulative revenue
What is Humira (adalimumab)?
A ski resort in Utah that is only for skiing (no snowboarding!)
What is Deer Valley (or Alta)?
The only country in history to have gained independence against its will
What is Singapore?
The Chinese name for SF translates to "old gold mountain", derived from the 1800s gold rush. Where is the contrasting "new gold mountain"?
What is Melbourne / Australia?
This city had the world's deepest subway station for decades until Hongyancun station in Chongqing opened in 2022
What is Kyiv (Arsenalna station)
The branch of the FDA that regulates small molecules
What is CDER? (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
The snowiest city in the U.S. by annual snowfall?
Syracuse, New York (Rochester is a close second)
The lowest point in Asia
What is the Dead Sea?
San Francisco's old name before the U.S. claimed it (and California) from Mexico in 1848 and renamed it SF
What is Yerba Buena?
This European company made the sexy new electric trains that Caltrain deployed to service in 2024, nicknamed "KISS"
What is Stadler (KISS = Komfortabler Innovativer Spurtstarker S-Bahn-Zug)
In 1938, Albert Hofmann meant to synthesize a respiratory stimulant with fewer side effects. Instead he synthesized this crowd pleaser today
What is LSD?
In 2002, Australia won its first ever gold medal in the Winter Olympics from this race, due to everyone else falling right before the finish line
What is the 1000m short track?
It is prominently featured in the South China Sea region of every map published by China
What is the nine-dash line?
The U.S. Navy’s WWII practice of discharging suspected gay sailors at West Coast ports, particularly San Francisco, helped seed early LGBT communities in this neighborhood
What is the Tenderloin?
This bus line is the most ridden west of the Mississippi
What is the 38 Geary in San Francisco